Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...

An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has succeeded in generating haploids in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana very efficiently. This process involves degrading a ...

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of years later. Scientists have now discovered that a molecular system once ...